The Horrifying Dangers of Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is considered as a serious threat to the health of any child. Childhood obesity and related health complications including physical, emotional, psychological and social disorders are now spreading like an epidemic.

The risk of being obese in adulthood is dramatically increased if someone is suffering from obesity during his or her childhood. Poor eating habits, sedentary behavior, lack of exercise and genetic predisposition may contribute to the development of childhood obesity. The potential dangers of childhood obesity are enormous and sometimes fatal.

Health Hazards

The dangers of childhood obesity are indeed horrifying and occasionally fatal in the due course of time. Although the management of childhood obesity is possible and can be successfully treated if early management is administered, parents do not show sufficient willingness in most of the cases. In fact, many parents do not consider it as a serious health issue but a natural and healthy developmental condition.

But the dangers of childhood obesity can increase the risk of many serious diseases that are practically rare during childhood in normal condition. These diseases may include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type II diabetes, sleep apnea, early hardening of arteries, liver and gallbladder diseases, stomach and pancreas diseases, cardiovascular complications, early arthritis and many others. This in turn, although rare, may cause death to the child suffering from obesity.

Emotional and Social Hazards

The dangers of childhood obesity influence the emotional and social regime. Since ages flabby children are teased, mistreated and bullied by their classmates and peers. This can significantly affect the child's self esteem and lead the child to experience a lower self esteem than normal. The terrible dangers of childhood obesity are seen when a child becomes absolutely withdrawn from his or her social groups, eventually confines himself / herself within a limited boundary and show suicidal tendency.

At this stage, the self esteem of a child is entirely destroyed and he or she does not show any willingness to face any challenges in life. Typically, an obese child reports extremely poor quality of life which is about five times higher than a normal weight child. In addition to all these complications, obese children are usually labeled as lazy when, in practice, to stay physically active is much harder for them compared to normal weight child.

Other Important Facts

Moreover, an obese child lacks the ability to cope with the stresses associated with physical exercise. Trying to perform physical activity makes them stressed out easily and they experience intense pain in leg and back area. Apart from that, low self esteem and depression together alter the production of brain-chemicals, which directly pose an adverse influence on the desire for staying active.

Those who are suffering from childhood obesity find it difficult to reduce weight throughout their life span. The most significant dangers of childhood obesity are linked with the excess development of fatty cells. In other words, the number and size of the fatty cells are dramatically increased among children or teens suffering from obesity or overweight problems. Although you may be able to reduce the fat cell size, you can not decrease the number of fatty cells in your body, once you have developed them. It is the most vital point of childhood obesity that makes it so horrifying a danger.

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